Maybe I have the wrong idea of what settings correspond with having AOD off.
What I’ll do today either way is turn off battery protection, so that my phone’s battery usage overview resets, then I’ll monitor again
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AoD stands for Always on Display, which corresponds to having Always show time and info enabled. In this state it is possible to disable Wake screen for notifications as incoming messages are “visible” all the time - which are coming in as a very small notification dot below the clock. So definetely user preference on how to handle this 
just for reference where to find them, this is NOT how the options need to be set for AoD
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Every time after an update, there is higher battery consumption for a few days. Maybe this is the same with a new phone and will the battery consumption improve after a few days.
Yeah, with my FP5 this goes down to 12h easily, especially if some setup is done.
Regular usage: 3-4h screen time, low 20ish hours later battery is drained.
So, do I have my settings in order for low power consumption?
Here is my battery consumption. During this test I used AoD.
I disconnected the phone from the charger this morning around 6:00AM and took the snapshot now, around 15:30.
What about that screen usage? Is it normal?
Ciao,
Max
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This is my battery graph after returning home from work with internet disabled (except for a couple of minutes), no AoD, dark mode and 90 hz display. Most of the time I used a ibasso dc03 pro 3.5 DAC to listen to (local) music , it gets a bit warm while doing so, so I suspect it’s energy consumption isn’t marginal. Doubletwist is the music player. + 80 min of bluetooth podcasts commuting in a car.
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You’re not using your phone At least, 9 minutes of screen time is nothing. Let’s not flex battery life if you’re not using your phone. I mean, it makes sense your battery last for a long time if you don’t use it. I see that in more screenshots here.
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well, thats what is bad about it, during the night till morning all accu is lost and I have to load it twice a day because it got sucked dry for idle only…
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Ah got it! I misread the thread in that case. Likely the adaptive battery feature still needs to kick in. I already start to see the same battery life as I had on my FP4 and that’s with AoD and 90Hz enabled.
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without AoD and using it around 1.5 hours in the morning
after 1h with AoD and no further usage (4% gone)
after an additional hour with AoD and no usage and the screen face down (what should turn off AoD to my understanding and still 4% gone)
So the next days I will observe this further as I’m more in the home office and not traveling around and I’m not dependet on a powerbank or so…
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I completed my test today to check what’s the difference in battery drain with or without enabling “Always show time and info”. The only difference in configuration between yesterday and today is that option. The phone also was used more or less the same way.
With:
Without:
It seems that AoD dramatically increase battery usage but I can’t understand why as the screen always has the same battery usage value.
What’s swallowing all that energy?
Ciao,
Max
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When I look at battery usage I tend to use https://accubatteryapp.com/ which gives more detailed information.
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One week later…
I feel like I got substantially better battery life on my first charge than on the next two 
And I’m pretty sure it was after the first charge when the phone saw the highest use yet. On normal days it’s pretty much just an expensive alarm clock.
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First day of using my fairphone 5 with /e/ the battery got me through the day without issues, despite heavy usage (setting up / syncing all the stuff). Will report how the next days work!
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I would say this is heavy use:
- Navigation
- Streaming music via bluetooth
- Watching YouTube
- Browsing
- Taking some pictures
- Messaging
And that with 90Hz and AoD. It could still be better, Maybe adaptive battery will improve it more.
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You used YT for 6 of those 12 hours and your screen was on during the 12 hours for 3:45h. So how long did you actually actively use YT to watch a video?
You used Google Maps without screen on? Navigation with Maps and screen on, on my FP5 (same on the FP4) needs around 10% battery per hour. When screen is off Maps/Navigation does not drain battery a lot.
Its not always… this was with 9hours flightmode and didnt change since than, so overall. a bit weird.
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I suppose the stats also account background apps. I have YT Premium, so I suppose it stays active in the background? Just like the Play services, Quickstep and Signal, those were in the background as well. I didn’t play videos with the screen off. I used Maps for I think about 25 minutes as the stats show. Not sure if screen usage is added to Maps or just to the screen usage stat. I suppose those are separate? Otherwise the stats would not make sense, it would then count screen power usage twice.
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